Review - World Whiskies Conference 2007

Bringing together the great and the good of the world’s whisky distillers, The World Whisky Conference – which ran this week in Glasgow – saw just-drinks out in force. Chris Brook-Carter looks back at the two-day event, which saw both fur and sparks fly.

Bringing together the great and the good of the world’s whisky distillers, The World Whisky Conference – which ran this week in Glasgow – saw just-drinks out in force. Chris Brook-Carter looks back at the two-day event, which saw both fur and sparks fly.

A leading Bacardi executive has called on the Scotch whisky industry to radically rethink its rules on the definitions of Scotch whisky, questioning whether the strict guidelines were hindering Scotch’s efforts to compete with more innovative and less regulated categories such as vodka.